givio

I understood what chocolate you meant. :-)

Are you worried about it because you want the overall quilt to look light or bright? I think you can help control that simply by what color you use to set it. If you are going to set the blocks on point with white-- no matter if you use milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or black in sewing the blocks-- the overall effect will be brighter than if you set using say blue, or, well, milk chocolate. (And if you set on point, it will be brighter than if you set with sashing, no matter what sashing color you use.) With the blocks on point, half of the color in the quilt will be the background color, so it plays a big part in the overall feel and look.

Rather than value, what seemed to concern me more was variation of color. Midway, when I laid the blocks out together, I saw that I hadn't used much yellow or red. I used only my stash, and I have more cool colors than hot colors in it, and old, dull, sort of gloomy prints. After I saw that, I intentionally tried to use brighter colors.